Americans drank fewer than two gallons of bottled water per year, and almost all of that was in the form of water from big office coolers .
The farmers say that, on average, their households consume about 3, 000 gallons of water a year.
As it turned out, General Mills blew everyone else out of the water this year.
As it turned out, The Walt Disney Company blew everyone else out of the water this year.
And the University of Vermont became the first public university to ban the sale of bottled water last year.
Farmers in the Klamath basin use about 350, 000-400, 000 acre-feet of water a year.
While food remains a priority, some funds will go toward building boreholes in the region to provide water all year, he said.
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Campaigners say Americans consume 50 billion small bottles of water each year.
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Not all emerging markets are struggling to tread water this year.
Balding herself landed in hot water last year after making fun of jockey Liam Treadwell's teeth live on air just after he won the Grand National.
Still, despite more than 1.9 million homeowners nationwide finding their way back above water last year, 13.8 million American homeowners are still struggling with negative equity.
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As it is, the food we export to China consumes around 41 trillion liters of water each year, or twice the discharge of the Colorado River, BCG says.
Like power plants, data centers, with their acres of servers, suck up millions of gallons of water a year for cooling (as an alternative to using electricity-hogging mechanical chillers).
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Oriental Daily News says authorities are investigating after more than 200, 000 tonnes of rubbish was dumped illegally near a reservoir that will become Shenzhen's main source of drinking water next year.
Since January 2012, UNESCO has been working in the drought-affected countries in the Horn of Africa to identify and to map groundwater resources for an aquifer that will provide at least 200, 000 cubic meters of renewable water every year.
For a truly spectacular case of regional uproar, look at the national water plan unveiled in September, a huge scheme to transfer a cubic kilometre of water a year from (mainly) the Ebro, in the north, to the dry south-east.
At present, in order to switch water supplier, a firm or organisation must use more than five million litres of water a year at a single set of premises - in Wales that threshold is much higher, currently 50 million litres.
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the ??United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation?. The objective of this International Year is to raise awareness on the potential for increased cooperation, and on the challenges facing water management in light of the increase in demand for water access, allocation and services.
Yet billions of people lack basic water services, and millions die each year from water-related diseases.
World Water Day 2013 will be celebrated on 22 March under the theme Water Cooperation, within the framework of the International Year of Water Cooperation 2013, coordinated by UNESCO on behalf of UN Water.
California's Department of Water Resources says it would like ocean water desalination to add 500, 000 acre-feet a year of water to the Golden State's supplies, a modest amount compared with California's overall water consumption.
Seasoned rushers bring reusable bags to ensure they grab enough to quench their thirst for exotic water until next year.
Billions of dollars worth of water infrastructure upgrades are needed in the United States to stop major water losses each year.
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However, even if the regional development minister recommended water charges, Mr Wilson doubted there would be time to pass legislation to introduce household water bills next year.
Their ability to regain access to market financing in 2013 as planned (with Ireland dipping its toes into the water later this year) is far from sure.
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The infection hides in the intestine and lymph nodes and can survive in manure and pond water for a year or more, making transmission of the disease difficult to stop.
For the duration of the Plastiki expedition I urge you to remember your re-useable water bottle, this alone will help to reduce the 200 billion liters of bottled water consumed each year.
PepsiCo Americas food sales climbed by 5.0% in the quarter, while PepsiCo Americas beverages posted a 10.0% sales decline, partly owing to the overlap of the debuts of G2 and SoBe Life Water in the year-ago period.
Nationwide, 250, 000 water lines burst a year, or about one every two minutes, flooding and closing streets, interrupting water service, and requiring residents to boil water for safety, wrote New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg in a special series on water issues.
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